Black History Month 2022

Black History Month Day 9 Solomon Carter Fuller (August 1, 1872 – January 16, 1953) was a pioneering Liberian and African-American neurologist, psychiatrist, pathologist, and professor. Born in Monrovia, Liberia, he completed his college education and medical degree (MD) in the United States. He studied psychiatry in Munich, Germany, then returned to the United States, where he worked for much of his career at Westborough State Hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts. In 1919, Fuller became part of the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine where he taught pathology. He made significant contributions to the study of Alzheimer’s disease during his career. He also had a private practice as a physician, neurologist, and psychiatrist. He worked with Alois Alzheimer, the psychiatrist credited with publishing the first case of presenile dementia. While working as a clinical pathologist, Fuller noted that amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles may be significant biomarkers for the study of Alzheimer’s disease, separate from arteriosclerosis, the then-assumed cause of disease. Fuller worked with patients with chronic alcoholism, noting the neuropathology of the disease. In 1909, Fuller was a speaker at the Clark University Conference organized by G. Stanley Hall, which was attended by such notable scientists and intellectuals as anthropologist Franz Boaz, psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, philosopher William James, and Nobel laureates Ernest Rutherford and Albert A. Michelson. Fuller’s seminal publications, a two-part review of Alzheimer’s disease, came in 1912 and was the first English translation of the first Alzheimer’s case. Many of Fuller’s contributions to the scientific literature were forgotten for decades, but his discoveries continue to guide research today.

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